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So I just came across this website. If you sign up, you have the chance to vote for video games spanning five eras and nineteen consoles. The top eighty games will be presented in an art exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum from March 15 to September 30 of 2012. Much to my surprise, NiGHTS was a nominee. Let's get those votes rolling!

http://www.artofvideogames.org/

(Apologies if this has been posted.)

http://www.anasomnia.com/

"A whole world waits for you when you turn out the lights. In our dreams, lie childish figures, random shapes and half remembered memories."

Reminds me a lot of NiGHTS, just thought I'd share. Also reminds me of that short "film" posted here a while back with the paraplegic child.

The webcam thing is really quite cool. If you have one, it will sense when you turn off the lights in the real world. If you don't have one, click "no" and you can manually turn the lights off with a switch on the website. When your lights are off for a while, things will start to happen in the darkness.

This is one particular dream that has been on my mind for a few weeks.

It starts off with me inside a big blue hotel, almost like a labyrinth. Somehow I had the knowledge that it's a place where male prostitutes go to do the dirty with their clients. While I'm trying to find a way out, an old woman smiles at me and hands me a very large bag of candy (think garbage bags), but it's clear and the candy does not move no matter how much I shake it. The candies are round and all sorts of colors. I particularly remember blue and yellow ones. Anyway, there's an elevator behind the woman and I step inside. There are other people there, and while I wait I eat some of the candy. The dream skips at this point.

I'm in a car with my uncle and someone is banging on the window next to me. I'm covering my head because the glass has almost shattered, but I don't make any attempt to escape. The dream skips once again.

I am in my room back home with my "boyfriend," the grim reaper, apparently. He almost looks cartoonish, dressed in a black robe. He has skin everywhere but on his face, a skull. Apparently it's his birthday, and there's a present in my room, for him, I guess. Inside is a baby doll that crawls along a set track (looks like train tracks). After we plug it in and turn it on, it begins to crawl and the reaper gets a face. I remember almost everything about it, he even had small traces of acne. For some reason, he runs out of the room at this point. The doll begins to scare me, so I try to unplug it. For some reason, the extension cord I plugged it into has all sorts of things plugged into it, but I can't follow their cords to anything within my room. It is then that I hear the doll speak. "I died anyways... I don't think I'm ready," it says. It glitches and repeats the last sentence over and over. I become afraid now and I try even more frantically to unplug it.

This is when I wake up.

 

Thoughts?